Hepatic Vein Disorders

Tests of Hepatic Synthetic Capacity

Tests for Liver Injury

Tests of Pulmonary Function PFT

Tests of Respiratory Muscle Function

Hepatic Function SPECT Testing Before and During Radiotherapy Can Help in Treatment Planning ...

Monitoring the hepatic function of unresectable liver cancer patients evaluated by 99mTc-labeled iminodiacetic acid used with SPECT imaging before...

Hepatic Function Testing via SPECT Prior to and During Radiation Therapy Can Assist Treatment Planning for Liver Cancer Patients

Monitoring the hepatic function of unresectable liver cancer patients, measured by 99mTc-labeled iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) via single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) prior to and during ra...

Hepatic Function Testing Prior To And During Radiation Therapy Can Assist In Treatment Planning For Liver Cancer Patients

Monitoring the hepatic function of unresectable liver cancer patients, measured by 99mTc-labeled iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) via single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) prior to and during ra...

Hepatic function testing can assist in treatment planning for liver cancer patients

(American Society for Radiation Oncology) Monitoring the hepatic function of unresectable liver cancer patients, measured by 99mTc-labeled iminodiacetic acid via single-photon emission computed tomogr...

In Case You Were Wondering What We Thought About the Liver

Courtesy of the vital site that is TOC ROFL, I wanted to highlight this graphic from this paper in MedChemComm. I always pictured the liver as sort of a sawmill or shredding machine for our drug cand...

Liver fibrosis in 2012: Convergent pathways that cause hepatic fibrosis in NASH

Efforts to understand fatty liver disease have focused on the gut microbiome's stimulation of hepatic injury and fibrosis through specialized signalling complexes at the cell surface and in the cytoso...

Melanoma transection has no impact on survival

Melanoma transection does not affect a patient’s overall disease-free survival or mortality, and punch and saucerization biopsies may be more likely to transect tumors than excisional bi...

Probiotics found to reduce hepatic encephalopathy

(European Association for the Study of the Liver) Probiotics could emerge as a treatment plan to manage hepatic encephalopathy (HE) therapy after a new study announced at the International Liver Cong...

Clinical Utility of (13)C-Liver-Function Breath Tests for Assessment of Hepatic Function.

(13)C-Liver-function breath tests have been used in clinical diagnostics and, to a limited extent, to investigate hepatic function. From a practical perspective, tests such as the (13)C-aminopyrine an...

Hepatic hilar transection method for liver surgery (with video).

The procedure used to isolate the hepatic artery, the portal vein and the bile duct separately at the hepatic hilum was first reported in the 1940s, and remains significant as an essential technique f...

Anatomical liver segmentectomy 2 for combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma with tumor thrombus in segment 2 portal branch.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Hepatic resection is the only effective treatment for combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma. CASE PRESENTATION: A 52-year-old man was preoperatively diagnose...

Anatomical Variations of Hepatic Veins: Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Scans of 200 Subjects.

BACKGROUND: The impact of hepatic venous anatomic variations on hepatic resection and transplantation is the least understood aspect of liver surgery....

Relationship between Preoperative Volume and Weight of the Right Liver Lobe Graft, with and without the Middle Hepatic Vein, in Living-Donor Transplantation.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the preoperative volume of the right liver lobe (as determined by computed tomography) and the intraoperative graft weight with...